"GO!GO! MANIAC" is an unidentified Japanese rock song. It was mislabelled as the second season opening for the anime, "K-ON!". The Intro part you can hear at 0:11 samples the voice from K-ON's first season episode 6 "School Festival!".
Search History
The song was first uploaded during the release of K-ON's second season on April 2010, likely on April - May 2010. It got mislabelled as the opening of the series' second season.
On October 22nd, 2016[1], user 芦川本能 reuploaded the song onto her channel. The description of the song stated:
"Right after the second season of K-ON started, The full OP was uploaded on YouTube, and when I stepped on it, it was fishing. The point is, it was a different song, but the song is so awesome that I want to know the details."
Due to the actual used song in the anime being around 4:10 minutes, it was highly likely that the original uploader put an extra 16 seconds at the end of the 3:54 song to match the actual timelength of the song and possibly fool people into believing that it was the actual season two opening.
Theories
Those ambiguous lyrics might describe about the lamentation over the growing popularity of K-ON. Here's a quote of the comment posted on the original upload by user rotten dirt:
"After reading the lyrics in other people's comments, I thought that it might be a song about the sadness and anger of K-ON that the artist loved being eroded by the image of K-ON that the public wants as the series becomes more popular.
Like, they'd want to say it's unfair to sing such pop and pretty songs (songs of fantasia) that are far removed from their image as soon as it's getting famous (becoming so big), maybe?"
There is also a theory why the song sounds like mainly a synthetic voice singing means the artist hadn't been able to get a female vocalist. It came from a guess given by user inu:
"I guess they may have actually wanted to create a hoax opening but it's definetely hard to make it because they didn't have any relationships with a female vocalist"
Lyrics (attempted)
NOTE: The complete lyrics are taken from Lost Media CN Wiki[2], where is the Chinese wiki site based in Wikidot.
[Intro]
One, two, three!
[Verse 1]
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
[Verse 2]
愛想笑いで
えっそんなだったっけ
オールドブルーのライブシャドウ
もうびっくりだって
もうびっくりなんて [もうビックになって]
もうびっくりだね
君も
損得だけで
そっと気だけで [その時だけで]
君は幻想の歌
歌い出すよ
損得だけで
そっと気だけで [その時だけで]
弾いた
綺麗に鳴らして
卑怯なだけ
卑怯なだけ
[Instrumental break]
(Repeat Verse 2)
[Verse 1]
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
[Intro]
One, two, three!
[Verse 1]
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
[Verse 2]
With a polite smile
Oh, was it like that before?
Live Shadows with Old Blue
So surprising to me
So surprising for me [Being so bigger now]
Really surprising for me
And you, too
Only profit and loss
Just with a little thought [Only just for the moments]
You start singing
A song of fantasia
Only profit and loss
Just with a little thought [Only just for the moments]
You played
With dainty sounds
Underhandedly
Underhandedly
[Instrumental break]
(Repeat Verse 2)
[Verse 1]
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Go! Go! Maniac!
Gallery
External Links
- Original YouTube upload by 芦川本能.
- Ziro's YouTube upload.
- Video in Japanese analysing the song by Theつぶろ.
- One of the song's recreations.
References